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Published: April 25th 2014
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The drive from MonumentValley was a bit more interesting with varied interesting rock formations on both sides of the road. It was 7 hour drive and we got to Henderson, Las vegas before nightfall. On the way we took a small detour to see the Hoover dam which is in many thriller movies. The Hoover dam is mainly a hydro-electric dam on the Colorado river. Built around 1930s this spectacular arch dam creates a huge reservoior of water and produce enough power to supply Vegas and more. Also spectacular is the road bridge over the dam which was built recently. Even in the evening the temperatures in the dam area (sheltered by hills all around) was so high we had a bit of problem adjusting to it at first.
Henderson is a quite suburb of Las Vegas probably about 15 miles from the city center. Even though a separate entity in the old days now it is a part of Las Vegas. As with the other houses I had seen in the USA Jake and Sumi’s house also was huge. There was some garden area in the back with just parking facilities in the front.
As you can imagine Las Vegas is in a desert. Whatever vegitation was here was cultivated other than some native bushes and Cactii. The city seem to be sprawling out in all directions. We had only limited time (2days) in Vegas.
Next day we drove into the city parked the car (free parking in city center every where) and walked the Las Vegas Boulevard where the main attractions were.
Our three children had got together and bought us tickets for one of the shows in Vegas. They probably guessed thet we will not see a show if we saw the price of entry. The show was called La Riva (The Dream). After some sat nav problems we managed to get to the show just in time at 1900hrs.
We were seated around the 7
th row on a circular stadium. Later Tessa told me that they were afraid to get the front seats as “mom may not like to get wet”. We were not prepared for what was in store for next 90 minutes. It was the most fantastic show I had ever seen, even on the telly. The stage was set
in a water pool of 15m diameter with “stage”s appearing from under water when required. A cone from outside the staduim ended in an opening at the top of 3m diameter about 100m high from which actors, artisans, rain, clouds, storm etc all came down. The stage in the water was changing all the time, at time there were platforms for actors/dancers at other times the stage wanished that some could dive down into the water from 50m high. These technical marvels could not eclipse the performance of the artists. In all there were over a 100 artists most of whom were also great acrobats and swimmers at the same time.
Jake and Sumi met us in the foyer when we came out, the plan was to go out for a meal which I declined as we were quite stuffed already. We spent a few minutes in the casino, drove around the now fully lit bouleward mile. Then we parked the car to go to Bellageo to see the dancing fountains in the artificial lake. After wandering around a further hour we headed back home to get ready for the trip to El Dorado Hills, Northern California.
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